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FAIR PARK FIRST

EIN 83-1837875 DALLAS, TX

Revenue 2024
$21,995,243
Expenses 2024
$19,520,949

Program services were 86.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A02
Classification
1000
Street
3535 GRAND AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH THE CORPORATION IS ORGANIZED ARE: A) TO OPERATE EXCLUSIVELY FOR CHARITABLE, EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC OR LITERARY PURPOSES WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 501(C)(3) OF THE CODE, BY ENGAGING DIRECTLY IN SUPPORT OF SUCH PURPOSES OR BY MAKING DISTRIBUTIONS TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS FOR USE, BY THE DISTRUTEES, IN SUPPORT OF SUCH PURPOSES; B) TO OVERSEE OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT OF HISTORIC AND ARCHITECTURALLY SIGNIFICANT LANDMARKS, PUBLIC PARKS, AND PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT VENUES AND RELATED PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES; AND C) TO ENGAGE IN ANY AND ALL LAWFUL ACTIVITIES INCIDENTAL TO THE FOREGOING PURPOSES, EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE RESTRICTED HEREIN. THE CORPORATION SHALL NOT CARRY ON, OTHER THAN AS AN INSUBSTANTIAL PART OF ITS ACTIVITIES, ACTIVITIES THAT ARE NOT IN FURTHERANCE OF ITS PURPOSES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

FAIR PARK FIRST IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION CREATED TO OVERSEE THE MANAGEMENT AND STEWARDSHIP OF FAIR PARK, A 277 ACRE DALLAS CITY PARK, AND NTNL. HISTORIC LANDMARK, HOME TO NUMEROUS CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS

  • FAIR PARK FIRST'S, A TEXAS NONPROFIT'S MISSION IS TO RESTORE, REVITALIZE, AND RENEW FAIR PARK, A 138-YEAR-OLD, 277-ACRE NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK, IN ORDER TO ATTRACT ATTENTION FROM THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, THE REGION, AND THE NATION. AS THE CONSERVATOR AND MANAGER OF THIS CITY OF DALLAS PROPERTY, FAIR PARK FIRST FOCUSES ON THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OF BUILDINGS AND ART, ALONG WITH THE RESTORATION, OPERATION, AND MAINTENANCE OF THE ENTIRE CAMPUS. THE ORGANIZATION ALSO ENGAGES IN ACTIVATION THROUGH MAJOR EVENTS AND LOCAL COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING. FAIR PARK HAS RECEIVED EXTENSIVE ACCOLADES THROUGHOUT ITS HISTORY. IT WAS THE SITE OF THE 1936 TEXAS CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION AND THE 1936 WORLD'S FAIR, AND IT BOASTS THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF ART DECO ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN THE WORLD. RECOGNIZED AS A NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK, IT STANDS ALONGSIDE THE ALAMO AS A SIGNIFICANT SITE. AS AN EPICENTER OF ART DECO AND "TEXANIC" DESIGN, WITH BUILDINGS, MURALS, AND SCULPTURES CREATED BY RENOWNED ARTISTS, ARCHITECTS, AND CRAFTSMEN, IT IS TRULY A CROWN JEWEL OF TEXAS. SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 2019, FAIR PARK FIRST HAS SECURED OVER $400 MILLION IN PUBLIC AND PHILANTHROPIC INVESTMENTS TO RESTORE BUILDINGS AND ART, CREATE GREENSPACE, AND REJUVENATE THE PARK FOR A NEW CHAPTER IN ITS LONG HISTORY.

    Expenses $16,932,333 · Revenue $20,352,034

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • JASON BROWN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • VELETTA FORSYTHE-LILL

    IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • JON WOLKENSTEIN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • BOB LUXEN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • CHELBY SANDERS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • CHRIS BOWERS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • KIMBERLY SHAW

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • LUBBOCK SMITH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • MARGO RAMIREZ KEYES

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • MATT ORWIG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • REV DR TODD ATKINS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • ZAIDA BASORA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • DAN TORPEY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • TRISH BERNARD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • ALEJANDRA SALDANA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • ALYSSA SIFFERMANN

    INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $147,130
    From this org
    $147,130
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $21,995,243
    Expenses
    $19,520,949
    Contributions
    $1,613,292
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $18,347,888
    Expenses
    $22,533,792
    Contributions
    $8,300,481
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $21,615,220
    Expenses
    $19,653,185
    Contributions
    $13,140,238
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $21,746,910
    Expenses
    $17,596,077
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,328,548

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,347,734
    Expenses
    $11,741,060
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,927,418

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,844,908
    Expenses
    $11,139,102
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,324,408

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,981,231
    Expenses
    $8,363,739
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,257,318

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.